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  • UVA Board Should Name Larry Sabato Its New President

    UVA Board Should Name Larry Sabato Its New President

    If the Honor System still means anything, UVA cannot ignore the integrity questions surrounding its current leadership.

    Editor’s Note: The following article was originally published in the Virginian-Pilot and Daily Press. It is cross-posted here with permission.  On June 13, 2017, I published an op-ed in the Charlottesville Daily…

  • 10,000 PhDs

    10,000 PhDs

    A closer look at the alleged STEM ‘exodus’ reveals not a national emergency, but a government-engineered surplus decades in the making.

    I’ve always thought of myself as a glass-half-full kind of guy. Science begs to differ. A news article by Monica Hersher and Jeffrey Mervis in the January 29 edition reports…

  • How Will Universities Respond to a Post-Ayatollah Iran?

    How Will Universities Respond to a Post-Ayatollah Iran?

    In the 1970s, American campuses helped delegitimize a pro-Western Iran—today’s activism suggests they would do so again.

    Behind mass protests in Iran and the regime’s bloody crackdown looms a sense of change coming to the Middle East. While Democrats and Republicans sparred over immigration raids in Minneapolis…

  • Rigging the Clock

    Rigging the Clock

    The explosion of academic accommodations at elite universities makes it tough to believe their students are truly smarter—or more capable—than everyone else.

    Author’s Note: This article originally appeared in my weekly Top of Mind newsletter, which goes out to subscribers every Thursday. Sign up to receive it directly in your inbox. Thirty-eight percent.…

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    Is College Dead—or Just Changing?

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    That’s Not Good

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    Trump Lowers the Thermostat State

    Revoking the EPA’s greenhouse gas finding reopens debate over economic tradeoffs, industrial competitiveness, and academia’s embrace of climate orthodoxy.
  • 10,000 PhDs

    10,000 PhDs

    A closer look at the alleged STEM ‘exodus’ reveals not a national emergency, but a government-engineered surplus decades in the making.
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    The Activist Veto

    How identity politics restricts scientific inquiry.
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    A White-Collar Trade School?

    A view that college should prepare students for immediate employment is now mainstream across America.
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    Is College Dead—or Just Changing?

    An ed-tech executive argues higher education must adapt to AI as students and institutions prioritize job-market returns.
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    A Market Test

    Degrees that don’t deliver face a federal cutoff—just as the job market grows less forgiving.
  • That’s Not Good

    That’s Not Good

    A weak job market awaits recent graduates—and young men are feeling the contraction most.